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This chapter examines some of the ideas currently in circulation for reforming the United Nations. It begins with a basic question: is UN reform really the issue? The UN’s problems are partly due to the unwillingness of many governments to honour their current commitments. Creating a new document may be time-consuming and ultimately of little value if governments still remain unwilling to honour their commitments under the new document.
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See Keith Suter, Global Agenda: Economics, the Environment and the Nation-State (Sydney: Albatross, 1995).
Quoted in Alan Geyer, The Idea of Disarmament:Rethinking the Unthinkable (Washington DC: Churches’ Centre for Theology and Public Policy, 1982), p. 165.
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Suter, K. (1998). Reforming the United Nations. In: Thakur, R. (eds) Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26336-3_13
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